Omaha daily bee., 1887-01-22
continued late and everybody howled

Iowa Items.
Coastng is prohibited in Burlington.
Centervllle is about to construct an
electric light plant ard dig an artesian
we'll
Missouri Valley people declare in court
that they have forgotten the taste and
smell of beer, whisky, etc. Their mem.
ory stops short at b. b.
Arrangements are being made for the
erection of Methodist and a Catholic
church IN the spring at Hostein. A
cemetery for the town is also being agi-
tated.
/. 5. Toothacre, of Jefferson county,
had several teeth Knocked out last week
by the limb of tree he was telling. A
dentist is cultivating his name and bill
Tor new set
Two young ladies' of Missouri Valley
caused Il small sensation recently by
jumping the frame of young man, one
armed with stove poker and the other
with butcher knife. AS soon as the
pummellng and slashing began people in.
terfered and rescued the young masher.
One of the youngest suicides ever
| known, Willie Koch, Il boy of but fifteen
| years, hanged himself last Sunday in
| Otter Creek township, Crawford county.
No cause is assigned for the rash act, but
| the boys father committed suicide some
StiilS uSo, anu IL is lHOuSul lnbu lIlt
| suicidal intent was inherited
An cnterprsing young farmer in Des
| Moines county, who had saved up 5000,
of which 800 consisted of bank bills and
| 800 of gold, thought it safe place TO
put it in the chimney to keep it out of
reach of burglars. He recently put up y
| heating stove without thinking of the de-
| post of wealth, and the bills were re-
duced to ashes and the gold badly dis.
| figured.
| Dakota.
| The earnings of the Vermilion rail.
road station for 1886 amounted to sos
| 600.
A Kingsbury county thief stole a pic
| ture of the Saviour which was being sold
at auction.
| The progress of Deuel. county is
charged to the fact that all the commls-
| sioncrs are church members.
GA Dakota citizen has invented n new
| kind of u prairie schooner, or, rather,
| snow yacht. 1t will comfortable carry
| twenty persons, and in a recent trial trip
made twenty-five miles in an hour 1t IS
operated by wind of course.
| L. j. Mannlx, a Sioux Falls genus, has
| just invented what he terms n rotary
dispatch receiver" 1t consists of a
wheel mounted horizontally and armed
! with hooks to receive copies of dispatches
in telegraph offices.
For new town Clear Lake has few
equals in the way of church work, there
being two prosperous organizations and
| Sunday schools, two church buildings
costing nearly $500, both complete in
finish, furniture, organs, lamps, etc.
Utah and Idaho.
The banks of Salt Lake City show the
| y,,, h,1 A.
inclusive, of $l4S, ,596.55 in bullion and
$40, 100. so IN ore, q total of $l94 741O5.
A natural gas well has been struck at q
depth of fifty five feet in Salt Lake City.
| This however, will not diminish the flow
of wrath between Mormon and Gentle.
| There are no less than dozen ditch
| enterprises under consideration in
| southern Iowa, and the amount of land
covered amounts to more than 100000
| acres.
The talk of anncxing the panhandle
section OF Idaho to Washington territory
| has been revived by the governor of the
latter, who usges congress to take action.
Most of the residents prefer to 90 to
| Montana.
The bullion and ore shipments from
| Salt Lake City for the week ending yes
| terday, were: seventeen cars bullion,
| 435, ,412 lbs; eight cars lead, 127,070 lbs. !;
| nineteen cars SILVER ore, 0'o,3oo IDS Ten
cars copper ore, $3.50 lbs; total, fifty
two cars, 1869 1922 lbs.
| The mining outlook for the coming sea-
son on Wood river is the most encour
| aging that has been presented for several
years. A good deal of time last season
was passed in doing dead work, the ad-
vantage of which will be shown on the
resumption of active operations next
season.
| The Pacific Coast.
| The population of the city of San Diego
is now estimated at 13, 423.
! Los Angeles is praying for rain. One
speculator in orange lands offers Il bonus
| of S10,0 600 for ten inches of rain in the